KOENIGSBERGER, H.G. 1918-

(Helmut Georg Koenigsberger)

PERSONAL: Born October 24, 1918, in Berlin, Germany; son of Georg Felix (an architect) and Käthe (Born) Koenigsberger; married Dorothy M. Romano (a historian), August 10, 1938; children: K. Francesca and Laura H. (twins). Education: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, B.A., 1940, M.A., 1944, Ph.D., 1948. Hobbies and other interests: Playing chamber music, sailing, travel.

ADDRESSES: Home—116 Waterfall Rd., London N14 7JN, England.

CAREER: Assistant schoolmaster in Essex, England, 1941–42, and Bedford, England, 1942–44; University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, lecturer in history, 1948–51; University of Manchester, Manchester, England, senior lecturer in history, 1951–60; University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, England, professor of history, 1960–66; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, professor of history, 1966–73; University of London, King's College, London, England, professor of history, 1973–84, professor emeritus, 1984–, fellow, 1999. Visiting professor at City University of New York—Brooklyn College, 1957, University of Wisconsin, 1958, Columbia University, 1962, Cambridge University, 1963, and Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1964. Historisches Kolleg, Munich, Germany, fellow, 1984–85, vice president, 1975–80, president, 1980–85; International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, secretary general, 1955–75, vice president, 1975–80, president, 1980. Military service: Royal Navy, 1944–45.

MEMBER: British Academy (fellow), Royal Historical Society (fellow; vice president, 1982–85), Reál Academia de la Historia de Madrid (associate member), Historisch Genootschap te Utrecht.

AWARDS, HONORS: Guggenheim fellow, 1970–71; encomienda, Order of Isabel the Catholic, 1997.

WRITINGS:

The Government of Sicily under Philip II of Spain: A Study in the Practice of Empire, Staples Press (New York, NY), 1951, revised edition published as The Practice of Empire, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1969.

(With George L. Mosse) Europe in the Sixteenth Century, Holt (New York, NY), 1968, 2nd edition (with Mosse and G. Q. Bowler), Longman (New York, NY), 1989.

Estates and Revolutions: Essays in Modern European History, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1971.

The Habsburgs and Europe, 1516–1660, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1971.

Politicians and Virtuosi: Essays in Early Modern History, Hambledon Press (Ronceverte, WV), 1986.

Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

Contributor to books, including The New Cambridge Modern History II, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1958; The New Cambridge Modern History III, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1968; and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including English Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, European Studies Review, and Transactions of Royal Historical Society.

EDITOR

(With J.H. Elliott) The Diversity of History, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1970.

Luther: A Profile, Hill & Wang (New York, NY), 1972.

(With Brigitta Oestreich) Gerhard Oestreich, Neostoicism and the Early Modern State, translated by David McLintock, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1982.

A History of Europe, Volume 1: Medieval Europe, 400–1500, Volume 2: Early Modern Europe, 1500–1789, Longman (New York, NY), 1987.

Republiken und Republikanismus im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit, R. Oldenbourg (Munich, Germany), 1988.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Mack, Phyllis and Margaret C. Jacob, editors, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of H. G. Koenigsberger, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1987.

PERIODICALS

Church History, December, 1990, review of A History of Europe, Volume 2: Early Modern Europe, 1500–1789, p. 601.

English Historical Review, October, 1989, review of Politicians and Virtuosi: Essays in Early Modern History, p. 1030; July, 1992, review of Republiken und Republikanismus im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit, p. 715.

History: Reviews of New Books, winter, 1988, review of A History of Europe, Volume 2: Early Modern Europe, 1500–1789, p. 79; spring, 1988, review of A History of Europe, Volume 1: Medieval Europe, 400–1500, p. 122.

History Today, January, 1988, review of A History of Europe, Volumes 1-2, p. 57.

Religious Studies Review, July, 1990, review of A History of Europe, Volume 2: Early Modern Europe, 1500–1789, p. 268.

Times Literary Supplement, May 3, 2002, Jonathan Israel, review of Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, p. 28.